WoRMS taxon details
Astarte quadrans Gould, 1841
AphiaID: 156745
AphiaID: 156745
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Archiheterodonta (Infraclass) > Carditoida (Order) > Crassatelloidea (Superfamily) > Astartidae (Family) > Astarte (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Astarte J. de C. Sowerby, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (73 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 2.5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence to Long Island Sound, New York [details] Habitat: ocean bottom [details] Reproduction: separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156745 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Huber, M.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Astarte quadrans Gould, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156745 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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